Independent · Since 2010
Queer India has a history. We keep her alive!
Queer India has always existed.Her lives, stories, movements, relationships, cultures, and communities have shaped lives across generations. Yet much of this history remains fragile—scattered across personal collections, community records, photographs, publications, oral histories, and memories.
Sustaining the records of Queer India
Queer Ink ensures that the history of our community survives. Through personal papers and organisational archives, we preserve, publish, and make accessible the lived experiences, stories, and cultural memory of queer India.
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Queer Ink Publishing
Writing the future we deserve.
Books transform memory into durable form. Our publishing programme preserves and shares queer Indian stories, histories, and voices through carefully curated works drawn directly from our historical archives.
Claim your voice— II
Queer India Archives
Preserving what might otherwise be lost.
Established formally to turn chance into intention, the Archives preserve oral histories, photographs, correspondence, organisational records, publications, and ephemera documenting queer Indian lives.
Explore Archiving— III
Queer Ink Digital Library
Opening the record.
Built to remain findable by design, in a world that is narrowing access, the Digital Library provides access entries to books, scanned documents, oral history media, and curated collections.
Explore our past
From the catalogue
View all titlesRecent and notable.
The Wisest Fool on Earth
A Play of Light
All My Masters
"Our voices shatter the silence we inherited, so the future must never know the choice of the closet."— Queer Ink
Fifteen years of work
How Queer Ink came to be.
2010
Queer Ink launches on 8 April as India’s first online bookstore dedicated to queer literature. Launch of the Queer Ink Literature Festival, Q Open Mic, and Q Mela.
2012
First book published: Out! Stories from the New Queer India, edited by Minal Hajratwala. The first print run sells out within months.
2014
QFest begins. India’s longest-running monthly queer festival, held at a mainstream Mumbai venue. Continues through 2016.
2015
Production of the first short fiction film, Any Other Day.
2018
Production of the second short fiction film, Cover Story.
2019
OUT NOW — India’s first online queer film festival.
2023
Queer India Archives formally established, building on years of informal collection and oral history work.
2025
Queer Ink Digital Library launches. Partnership with the Naz Foundation begins for the Global Virtual Run.
From QBlog
All postsNotes from inside the work.
31 May 2026
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
28 April 2026
On the small press, fifteen years in
What I’ve learned about choosing slowness — about publishing twelve books carefully rather than fifty in a hurry, about the difference between scale and reach. Publishing is not just manufacturing; it is stewardship.
12 April 2026
Queering the archive: a working definition
What it means, in practice, to queer an archival method — and what it asks of those of us who steward queer Indian collections in 2026. It starts with consent, proceeds with contextual care, and rejects institutional neutrality.